FLYING AT 75

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 18 September 1929, Page 10

FLYING AT 75

STATESMAN'S TONJC '■!•; \)'i'.;i: THAN a tam Sir lli.rni i' i'iiiuki It, ih'' Iri:.h slates man ami agricultural expert, is learning Li. llv ai tin: ii ;e of .'.'.. :,:i\s "The Daily Mail." Ho is a pupil of llm Prunl.l.iri>ls School uf Fhing a! Brooklands Air (Ironic, VVrybridgo, Surrey, near his home. His' friends y,i\ ll.at lie is a; keen as a hoy on his now spin I. Mr Bernard Shaw, v. In. is .1 groat friend, wrote several amusing letters after hearing of Sir Uoraei''s enterprise. In one he suggests that Hying at his age is ;:n "adventurous, agreeable and not 100 obvious method of suicide."

Sir Horace said to a reporter: "1 find my dying lessons very enjoyable. -Already I have put in four hour.-, and 35 minutes.

''Mr Shaw suggests that it is a method of suicide. Ido not know what my instructor says about suicide, but I know thai ho has a distinct objection to homicide, t certainly feci safer in the air than in a taxi-cab in London. "L do not know whether 1 shall sne(ced in becoming a, qualified pilot at mv time of life. 1 lind the lessons a. very good tonic, however. It is an experience which 1 would not like to miss."

The instructor telephoned to Sir Horace recently when he was due to take a lesson that it was raining hard. Sir Horace, however, insisted on making an ascent between showers.

Sir Horace has already taken control of an airplane while living with his instructor, and is said to have all the makings of a good pile'.